Image: Image reproduction rights managed by Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; institutional source link provided
View source →Pablo Picasso, summer 1906
Medium
Charcoal, with stumping, on cream laid paper
Dimensions
61 × 45.8 cm (24 1/16 × 18 1/16 in.)
Style
Rose Period figuration
Decade
1900s
The official Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois record identifies Fernande Olivier as a Pablo Picasso charcoal, dated summer 1906, in Charcoal, with stumping, on cream laid paper. This work depicts the artist and model Fernande Olivier (1881–1966). She was Picasso’s partner for eight years and frequent subject. The pair spent the summer of 1906 in the small town of Gósol in the Spanish Pyrenees and it was here that Picasso made the drawing. According to Olivier, their relationship was tumultuous because of their mutual jealousy, but, as a model and companion who catered to his demanding lifestyle, she was essential to his early success.
Fernande Olivier is grouped under Rose Period for gallery navigation using the date published by Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. This period label provides high-level art-historical orientation and does not supersede the primary collection record. The institutional credit line is: Gift of Hermann Waldeck.
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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Visit museum website →2026 Estimated Value
Public collection / market value not asserted
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Last Known Sale
No public auction record — held in permanent museum collection
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